Medical instruments are sterilized following a surgical abortion at Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City, U.S., December 6, 2021.
Circuit Court of Appeals last month allowed the state to enforce its ban, reversing a lower court order that had partially blocked it.
Idaho in 2020 passed a so-called "trigger" law that would go into effect and ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that had established a right to abortion nationwide.
The law includes a narrow exception for abortions that are necessary to prevent the mother's deathThe Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022.
It also said that any conflict had been eliminated since Hendrix's decision because the state legislature and state Supreme Court had since clarified the law.
Persons:
Evelyn Hockstein, Biden, Donald Trump, Raul Labrador, Roe, Wade, Joe Biden's, James Wesley Hendrix, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Jonathan Oatis
Organizations:
Trust Women, REUTERS, Circuit, Republican, Democratic, U.S . Department of Justice, U.S, Supreme, Idaho, Labor, District, Thomson
Locations:
Oklahoma City , U.S, San Francisco, Idaho, U.S, New York